The (2,1) automata

When Moore neighborhoods are used in a CAM , there is only space enough in the tables for a single bitplane, together with the centers of the three remaining planes. However, there is an additional constraint, namely that the tables always refer to just the even bitplanes; the result has even planes evolving, but odd planes displaying nothing more than functional information about their partners. Moreover, the arrangement is confined to binary automata.

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• Generalities
• Moore (2,1) automata
  • Totalistic rules
  • Semitotalistic rules
  • Even-odd-center rules
  • Symmetric rules
  • General rules
• Hexagonal (2,1) automata
• Moore (2,1/2) automata

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Harold V. McIntosh
E-mail:mcintosh@servidor.unam.mx